News item | 04-07-2025 | 15:15
Duped parents with additional damage can choose from two claims routes from September. The MijnHerstel route where parents themselves or with the help of their lawyer make an application for additional damage. And the Foundation Equal Recovery (SGH) route where parents tell their story to a voluntary listening writer. Both routes work with a uniform damage framework, which is already being used by SGH, and are concluded with a settlement agreement (VSO). For the outcome it therefore does not matter which route parents choose, the difference lies in the way; With support from SGH or more independently with digital support and personal (recovery) contact. This is stated in the progress report recovery operation allowances that State Secretary Palmen (repair and allowances) sent to the Lower House after the Council of Ministers.
State Secretary Palmen: “An important part of the recovery operation has since been completed. All victims have received € 30,000 euros. The vast majority of all duped parents, if the damage was greater than € 30,000, has now received all the unjustly collected childcare allowance. They have also received a compensation for material damage and are their culmination for their culmination and are their culmatic damage to their culmination. Compensation is not yet sufficient because they have lost their job or house to support this group of parents and their families faster and better.
Progress of recovery operation
A total of 69,400 people reported as potentially duped, of which 42,000 parents have been established that they have been duped. All first tests have been completed and all parents now have either an outcome of the Integral Assessment (IB) or they are pending. So there are no more parents who are in the queue for an IB. For more than 64,000 parents (92.5%) the integral assessment has been completed. The latest integral reviews will be completed this year.
Recovery
In the integral assessment, in addition to the compensation for the unjustified recovery, victims, also a material and immaterial compensation. The compensation is at least € 30,000, but can also be more. The material compensation is 25% of the amount for which the parent has been disadvantaged and the intangible compensation is € 500 per six months that the problems with the childcare allowance lasted. On average, € 40,000 has been awarded to the parents. For almost all victims of childcare allowance (98%), there are public debts that are eligible for eligible. In the meantime, 96% of the children have received compensation (between € 2,000 and € 10,000). More than 62% of the former allowance partners have received a compensation of € 10,000.
Registration portal
Behind every parent is a unique story and personal damage. No story is the same. This also means that for every parent the route to personal recovery is different and the need for support is personal. It is therefore important that parents and their lawyers can orient themselves well and, based on that, make a final choice for the additional damage route that best suits the individual parent. That is why the new registration portal will also start in September on which all information about the possibilities of additional compensation is made transparent. Parents can then register for additional compensation via the registration portal until 1 January 2026.
Additional damage routes
The route of the Independent Foundation Equal Recovery (SGH) is currently accessible to anyone who indicates that they have additional damage. Parents can also report to the VSO Director Route. From September, parents can register via the registration portal and the MijnHerstel route is also open to all parents. This route was designed in consultation with parents and assumes four principles: fast, transparent, integral and personal. For this route, the best-working parts of the VSO Regieroute and the lessons learned from the Digital Route pilot were brought together. In the MijnHerstel Route, parents receive maximum digital support and there is targeted personal contact with the practitioner. In the new route, information that is available is entered in advance. Parents can then make their financial damage plausible independently or with the help of, for example, their lawyer. It is important that parents can also work on closing the recovery process. The independent and at its own pace of the MijnHerstel Route contributes to the emotional recovery of the parent and the family. In the MijnHerstel Route, parents who need it also have the opportunity to complete the recovery process emotionally with a recovery interview. The MijnHerstel Route works with the same generous uniform damage framework such as SGH now uses and is also concluded with a VSO. At the end of the process, quickly and clearly it is clear what the outcome is. For parents who believe that a VSO does not offer a successful completion of the financial recovery, an administrative assessment of the additional damage remains a possibility.
Access for victims with integral assessment lower than € 30,000
Duped parents with an IB that is lower than the € 30,000 Catshuis arrangement can currently only go to the Actual Damage for their additional compensation. That is in line with the wish of the Chamber to give priority to serious victims. This was inspired by the assumption that parents who have repaired a high recovery may also have had higher consequential damage, while it is less expected to be expected in the event of a low recovery. In the past period, policy has been developed so that all victims – regardless of the height of their IB – can gain access to the MijnHerstel Route and SGH route. It has been agreed that when calculating the additional damage, a number of indicators, such as the height, duration and actual reimbursement of unjustified childcare allowance, will be considered. In concrete terms, this means that if a parent has repaid less than € 2,000 a year in one or two allowance years or the recovery has been recovered quickly, it is not assumed that additional damage was (fully) caused by the allowance affair. As a result, items cannot or cannot be fully granted, unless an additional substantiation shows that the damage is the plausible consequence of the allowance affair.
Broad support
In addition to the financial recovery, support in picking up life is an essential part of the recovery operation for victims and their families. Municipalities play a major and important role in this through broad support. To ensure that broad support has a clear, explanable approach, model policy rules have been drawn up. These policy rules provide clarity and harmonize the considerations that underlie the help offered and the question when what aid is used. They also offer clarity for parents and children who are entitled to help, about which considerations a municipality makes to achieve customization. With this, these policy rules help to reduce the differences in offering broad support between municipalities, while retaining space for local customization.
Intensive guidance of families who have lost control
Following the recommendations of the Van Dam Committee, the cabinet also looks at ways to better support people who have lost control of their lives. This is an estimated 2000 to 3000 families for whom it was already difficult for the allowance affair to keep a grip on their lives and where the allowance issue subsequently exacerbated this. To support these parents, the government focuses on an integral approach to the problems of these families.